If you’re used to recycling, you know that there are many rules for what goes in the recycling bin depending on where you live. They’re ever-changing, which can lead to confusion. (We can only imagine ...

Yes! It is true that you shouldn’t recycle plastic bottle caps that are less than three inches in diameter; in fact, you shouldn’t recycle anything that is less than three inches in diameter. Why is ...

Editor's note: A version of this story aired in December 2019. We get it: Recycling can be confusing. Do you keep the bottle caps on plastic water bottles or take them off? Should you break down ...

It’s a small matter, but a detail dedicated recyclers want to get right. Should you remove the cap of a plastic bottle before recycling it? How about the lid of a metal container? How about the lid of ...

Sometimes innovations in the smallest areas can have a big impact. Plastic recycler Greenpath Enterprises hopes the technology it developed to create a closed-loop system for recycling bottle caps can ...

A At hair salons and schools participating in Recycle Caps with Aveda, a beauty products manufacturer. What's collected: Bottle and jug caps that are rigid polypropylene plastic, sometimes noted with ...

PET bottles have one of the highest recycling rates in the industry, although during reprocessing the polypropylene or polyethylene-based caps must be separated. Now a California company has created ...

VENTNOR — Every day, millions of people throw out their plastic bottle caps — the red ones, the green ones, the white ones, etc. At the Ventnor Elementary School on Lafayette Avenue, students have ...